Word: limelighted
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...perhaps unfair that Baker and Shaw dominated the limelight--unfair but understandable. No matter how fast someone runs the two-mile or the two-mile relay, or how far someone puts the shot or how high someone pole vaults, the four-minute miler will be the hero of track and field. Even though dozens of runners have broken four minutes since Bannister and the world record is now an impossible 3:51.1, four minutes remains the magic mark, the measure of the miler's mettle. And everyone seems to think that one of these days either Baker or Shaw...
Gift Horse. Still, the then Vice President apparently had time to scratch for a piece of the limelight by coming through Mrs. Lincoln's White House office nearly every day, then on to the reception room, where newsmen could see him and assume he had just emerged from consultations with Kennedy. "Does he use this door very often? What is he doing in these offices?" she quotes J.F.K. Johnson, she says, asked her: "Be a good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting...
...Mehli Mehta. His work with the American Youth Symphony, largely unheralded and unsung, is truly awesome. Any man who can take a hundred California teenagers and inspire them to attempt the finest music in the symphonic repertoire and cover themselves with glory in brilliant performance deserves his share of limelight and applause. That a tremendous capacity for good lies latent in our oft-maligned American youth has again been demonstrated for us by this man from Bombay...
...vocal typecasting that prevails in opera, sopranos play the heroines, winning the glory as often as they win the tenor. Lower-voiced mezzo-sopranos, on the other hand, usually end up on the limelight's fringes, portraying a disappointed rival or a sister-and wishing they were sopranos. As a result, the soprano field tends to be overcrowded. Two decades ago, Bronx-born Regina Resnik, a dramatic soprano with a rich lower range, found the field so overcrowded that even her widely recognized abilities were not taking her to the top. "I was just a talented youngster compared with...
...rampaging heyday of the Red Guards, their chief cheerleader, den mother and Joan of Arc was Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side. The part, however, proved all too brief. Now that Mao has called off the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and sent the Red Guards back to school, Mrs. Mao has vanished from Peking's rostrums and podiums. "Hens must not cackle too much," Mao reportedly crowed to his male colleagues...